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iPad 3 4G Teardown — Our CXO flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia and was first in line to get the iPad 3 for our deconstructive pleasure. A big thanks to Macfixit Australia for letting us use their facility for the teardown! Tech Specs: Dual-core Apple A5X processor 9.7 inch LED backlit …

The new iPad doesn't allow FaceTime over LTE — We've just confirmed that although the new iPad has incredibly fast download and upload speeds over LTE, FaceTime vide chat still won't work directly on the 4G network. As you can see in the positively vexing screenshot above …

iPad review (2012) — The moment Tim Cook took the stage and announced the new iPad on March 7th in San Francisco, I immediately started brainstorming on my review for the device. There are clear challenges in comparing generational, iterative products like the iPad — especially when the devices themselves look nearly identical.

What Everyone Dislikes About The New iPad — iPad reviews are out! — Every review is overwhelmingly positive, but there are small complaints about the new iPad and we've summed them up here. — The one takeaway from reading over a half-dozen reviews: If you have an iPad 2, there's no need to upgrade.

Exclusive: Kevin Rose Will Join Google — Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation. — Rose's mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink. — Google is not outright buying or “acqhiring” …

Walmart to begin selling new iPad at 12:01AM tomorrow — Anxious Apple fans who weren't quick enough to place a pre-order before Apple sold out of pre-sales iPad inventory may end up getting their hands on the company's highly anticipated new tablet well before their fellow buyers.

Anarchy in the App Store — Path bills itself as a social network that cares about privacy. For a while it was also an App Store outlaw. When iPhone users downloaded it through Apple's popular storefront, the software surreptitiously sent a user's entire contacts list—including e-mail addresses …

Nokia working on own tablet: design chief — (Reuters) - Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio.

Super-Secret Google Builds Servers in the Dark — Inside the massive data centers run by Equinix, the lights are on in some cages, but off in others. Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired.com — Just how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data-center hardware from the rest of the world?

WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time! — The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web search, providing more direct answers and gaining “semantic” smarts to understand more about what words mean.

Aol Snaps Up Hyper-Local Photosharing App Hipster — Breaking: Aol (who is my employer somehow) has picked up local photosharing app Hipster for a low seven figures we're hearing. The Hipster team of five will be working for the Aol mobile team out of Palo Alto, under badass Sol Lipman. — Updating.

RIM confirms BB10 is coming to BlackBerry Playbook — RIM has confirmed to TechRadar that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be getting BB10 OS when it's ready. While there's no word on any new tablet hardware (the future of the PlayBook line is definitely in flux), existing owners …

Google Plus: The problem isn't design, it's a lack of demand — While Google continues to maintain that its Google+ social network is doing just fine, thank you very much — with a user base of about 100 million, according to the web giant — skepticism about the actual popularity of the service remains high.

Judea Pearl named 2011 winner of Turing Award — UCLA professor cited for pioneering work in extending our understanding of artificial intelligence — Judea Pearl is the winner of the prestigious Turing Award for his pioneering work in the field of artificial intelligence.

IDC: China to pass US in smartphone shipments in 2012 — China will surpass the U.S. in smartphone shipments this year, a title which the U.S. is never expected to regain, according to market figures released on Thursday by IDC. — China will surpass the U.S. in smartphone shipments this year …